Slavic sins of the flesh
Ronald Denis LeBlanc · 2009
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"This work by Ronald D. LeBlanc is the first study to appraise the representation of food and sexuality in the nineteenth-century Russian novel. Slavic Sins of the Flesh sheds new light on classic literary creations as it examines how authors Nikolay Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Grigorii Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Lev Tolstoy used eating in their works as a trope for male sexual desire. The treatment of carnal desire in these renowned works of fiction stimulated a generation of young writers to challenge Russian culture's anti-eroticism, supreme spirituality, and utter disregard for the life of the body, so firmly rooted in centuries of ideological domination by the Orthodox Church."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2009
- Language
- English
- Series
- Becoming modern: new nineteenth-century studies
- Publisher
- University Press of New England
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 338
- ISBN
- 9781584657675
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